MCCLOUD RIVER FALLS - McCloud, California

Indian tribes came to McCloud River Falls to fish for Rainbow Trout, hunt Elk, eat acorns, pine nuts, wild onions, wild plums, mushrooms, elderberries, make baskets from Native plant materials, and use plants for medicine, tools, clothes, and temporary houses

ACCESSIBILITY: McCloud River Falls consists of three impressive waterfalls: Upper, Middle, and Lower Falls. The Upper and Lower Falls are easily accessible by a paved walking path directly off of the parking area. The Lower Falls are within an earshot of the parking area. The Middle Falls are hard to find and are found along a rough trail. The overlook for the Upper Falls is only a few steps from the parking lot - just past the bathrooms and picnic area.


















DIRECTIONS: Use Highway 89 for 15 miles east of the I-5/89 junction and 5 miles east of McCloud and turn south on Road 40N44. (Look for a Fowlers Camp/McCloud Falls sign.) Go right at .6 mile (a left here takes you to overlooks of Middle Falls and Upper Falls) Continue another .7 mile past the campground and park at the picnic area at the Lower Falls. Follow your ears toward Lower Falls and the beginning of the trail.

Roads are not plowed during winter. For road and waterfall accessibility, call McCloud Ranger Station, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, P.O. Box 1620, McCloud, CA 96057; (530) 964-2184.